Re-cycle Bikes

Re-Cycle Bikes is a local family-run bike shop in Stepaside, Co. Dublin. They specialise in selling, repairing, and servicing second-hand bikes. Their second-hand bikes are fully serviced, ensuring quality and sustainability – helping to reduce waste, and promote green transport.

The government-backed Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme has helped many Irish business owners, like Willow and Stacey King, to expand their businesses and improve their sustainability.

Find out if your business is eligible for the Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme at https://sbci.gov.ie/

My name is Willow King. I am one of the owners of Recycle Bikes with my husband here, Stacy King. We recycle bikes in circular economy for resale. We started in the first lockdown in our front garden where it just took off and it has brought us four years later to here. Recycle bikes in stepside Dublin 18. Stacy has worked in the bike trade for years and years over 30 years. When CO came along, we just saw an opportunity. People were looking to get bikes repaired that were down the back of the garden in the back of the shed and it just started from there. We had two skip bags. We had about three ton of tires and tubes to dispose of and I tried to find sustainable way of doing this and I couldn’t find anything. So we contacted Repack and Circle End of Life tires who said there’s nobody doing it in the country. So we’ve taken on that challenge and we now collect from 13 bike shops around Dublin and Wikllo to help them be more sustainable as well. Everything we do is about recycling, reuse and being sustainable and customers come to us for that reason. They don’t want new parts. They know we have secondhand and we’re helping them be more sustainable as well. Success for us is to grow the business to sell more and more secondhand pre-loved bikes and there’s over 300 bike shops in Ireland. We would love for every single one of them to join up with us in recycling their tires and tubes. So, no more go to landfill.